The wife of an active duty Fort Carson soldier who appeared on the verge of deportation got a reprieve Sunday. Jennifer Maradiaga-Baca and her husband, Sgt. Tyler Garza, walked out of Centennial’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters under a cloudless Colorado sky and held each other.

Just minutes earlier, as they entered through the wire fence into the brick government building at 12445 East Caley, Garza had braced for a terse meeting and a solo exit.

“There was a point where things didn’t look good,” he said.

Maradiaga, 30, had received three official letters from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security directing her to bring "any and all immigration documents." Half-of-a-life ago, as a teenager, she illegally crossed the border from Mexico into East Texas. Despite severa

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